2020 Asia Pacific Workshop “Contentious Politics and its Repercussions in Asia” Virtual Program – January 11-22, 2021 Workshop Leaders: Teri CARAWAY – University of Minnesota – [email protected] Teri Caraway is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Her research areas encompass a wide array of issues, including comparative political economy of labor, transnational labor issues, Southeast Asia politics, gender, and comparative politics. From 2013 to 2014, she was a Rajawali Research Fellow at the Equality Development and Globalization Studies program at Northwestern University, and received the Fullbright Senior Scholar Award in 2004. Her most recent book, Labor and Politics in Indonesia (Cambridge, 2020, with Michele Ford), was published this year, and she has also published articles in World Politics, International Organization, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Politics & Society, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of East Asian Studies, and other journals. Edmund CHENG – City University of Hong Kong – [email protected] Edmund W. Cheng is an Associate Professor of the Department of Public Policy and the Director of the Political Analysis Lab at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Principal Investigator of World Values Survey in Hong Kong and the Vice President of Hong Kong Political Science Association. His research interests include contentious politics, political sociology, public opinion, Hong Kong politics, and Global China. His research has appeared in China Quarterly, China Journal, Information, Communication and Society, Political Studies, Mobilization, Social Movement Studies, among others. He co-edited An Epoch of Social Movements (Chinese University Press, 2018) The Umbrella Movement: Civil Resistance and Contentious Space in Hong Kong (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). He is now editing two special issues in China Quarterly and Social Movement Studies on China’s alternative public spheres and Asia’s network movements respectively. He received his PhD in Government from the London School of Economics in 2015. Jai-Kwan JUNG – Korea University – [email protected] Jai-Kwan Jung is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Korea University. He received his PhD from the Department of Government at Cornell University. Prior to joining Korea University, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Dr. Jung’s research interests include social movements and contentious politics, political conflict and violence, and comparative authoritarianism/democratization. His work has appeared in a number of academic journals such as Asian Politics & Policy, Democratization, European Journal of Political Research, International Political Science Review, Journal of International Politics, Journal of National Defense Studies, Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Korea Observer, Korean Political Science Review, Mobilization, Pacific Focus, among many others. Dr. Jung has received the Excellent Teaching Award from Korea University in 2012 to 2020 as well as the Seoktap Teaching Award in 2011. He is now working on the politics of protests and democratic development in South Korea. Teresa WRIGHT – California State University, Long Beach – [email protected] Teresa Wright is a professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at California State University, Long Beach. She has also been a visiting scholar and visiting fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii as well as a visiting scholar at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Wright has written numerous books, including Popular Protest in China (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2018), Party and State in Post-Mao China (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015), Accepting Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China’s Reform Era (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2010), and The Perils of Protest: State Repression and Student Activism in China and Taiwan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001). In 2019, Dr. Wright was awarded the California State University, Long Beach College of Liberal Arts’ “Most Valuable Professor” and was awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in 2018. Workshop Fellows: Chester Antonino ARCILLA – University of the Philippines-Manila – [email protected] Chester is faculty of development studies, economics, and sociology at the University of the Philippines- Manila. His work focuses on the interstices of subalternity, social movements, homemaking, and urban financialization. He recently completed his Ph. D. studies, where he analyzed how subaltern resistances co- constitute urban planning using engaged ethnography and life-history. His recent research highlights home assemblage among the urban poor, the feminization of homemaking, and the urban subaltern resistances and histories against housing commodification. Wei CHEN – Nanjing University – [email protected] Dr. Wei Chen is an assistant professor at the School of Government, Nanjing University. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include contentious politics, labor politics, industrial relation and non-governmental organization in contemporary China. Her publications have appeared in The China Quarterly, The China Review and other journals. Akanit HORATANAKUN – McGill University – [email protected] Akanit Horatana is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science, McGill University. His dissertation asks: why do some civil society organizations and social movements succeed in changing how the state addresses human rights protection and violations in the context of Asia? His cases involve countries in East and Southeast Asia with an in-depth investigation of Thailand and Taiwan. He is also conducting research on the student movement and contentious politics in Thailand under a support from Focus on the Global South. Before joining McGill, he worked several years on human rights advocacy and campaigning in the context of Southeast Asia with a focus on Thailand. Research Interests: Comparative Politics and Southeast Asian Politics, State and Civil Society, Politics of Human Rights. Claudia Junghyun KIM – City University of Hong Kong – [email protected] Claudia Junghyun Kim is an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong. She researches social movements, military bases, and politics of Korea and Japan. For 2019-20, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. Sarah LEE – University of California, Berkley – [email protected] Sarah Lee is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley, whose research focuses on religion and politics as seen in the contexts of comparative politics and international relations in Asia. Her dissertation explores the Chinese Communist Party’s selective treatment of Protestant churches. Sarah has written on topics ranging from contentious politics in authoritarian regimes to major power dynamics in multilateral institutions. Sarah received an MA in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley, an MA in International Relations from Peking University and a BA in Government from Dartmouth College. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Global Religion Research Initiative. Dongshu LIU – City University of Hong Kong – [email protected] Dongshu Liu is currently an assistant professor of political science at the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Syracuse University. His research interests include Chinese politics, political economy and institutions in authoritarian regimes, and survey experiments on public opinion and political behavior. Dongshu’s primary research is about distributional politics in authoritarian regimes. He also conducts studies on online political participation, policy advocacy, authoritarian control and repression, and regime support in China. His research works have appeared in Governance, Journal of Contemporary China, and Political Studies. 2 Yuchen LIU – Freie Universität – [email protected] Yuchen Liu is currently a postdoc researcher at Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany, working on the ERC project "Digital Governance in China". His research interests include coercion, law and politics, policing, organized crime, and governance. He got her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in June 2020 with the dissertation "The Politics of Policing in China: How Front Police Shape Order and Security". He got her M.A from Yale and B.A from China Youth University. Aulia NASTITI – Northwestern University – [email protected] Aulia Nasiti is a Ph.D. student in political science at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Born and raised in Indonesia, she is never cease to be amazed by Indonesian politics. She is am especially fascinated by the ways in which marginalized groups and ordinary people get by and navigate through various challenges posed by often complex and confusing political dynamics in Indonesia. Substantively, her interests lie in the intersection of political economy and contentious politics, especially on the political economy of labor commodification, capitalist